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  • "How droll," the Librarian says, not sounding very amused.†   (source)
  • Kim is so the opposite of that, so droll and funny in a low-key way that she's always having to say "just kidding" to people who don't get her sarcastic sense of humor, that I cannot imagine her ever being like her mother.†   (source)
  • A natural comedian, he never waited for the laugh that he knew must follow his droll statements.†   (source)
  • "Do I know any West—oh, Farm Boy, it's you, how droll!"†   (source)
  • There's nothing in the living world like books on water-cures, deaths-of-a-thousand-slices, or pouring white-hot lava off castle walls on drolls and mountebanks.†   (source)
  • Eragon noted how bright and intelligent its eyes were, though its face was rather droll with its frosty beard and somber expression.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fanning rolled her hips in a droll way like someone trying to keep up a Hula-Hoop.†   (source)
  • And in the course of the soliloquy, she even feels free to comment on the drollness of the course that events are taking ("Won't that be funny").†   (source)
  • Everything about her was droll—her drawling, wisecracking husky voice, the way she cocked her head to look at you with bright brown eyes from under her mop, even the way she held her ever-present cigarette, wrist flexed and ready for gesture.†   (source)
  • And this droll notion seemed to travel through the audience because isn't it unlikely that the real Rockettes would be wearing slave collars and doing routines with such pulsing sexual rhythm?†   (source)
  • "Imagine my surprise," Jess added drolly, "when I was her last resort."†   (source)
  • How droll.†   (source)
  • It was for a laugh, for a laugh, all the kids had laughed and laughed, and the droll tuba player of the old Elk's band had rendered it solo on his helical horn; with comical flourishes and doleful phrasing, "Boo boo boo booooo, Poor Robin clean"-a mock funeral dirge ….†   (source)
  • Very droll!†   (source)
  • When at first Zab "gathered a circle around him …. his behavior and speeches were softly silly, but as his blood grew warm by motion and liquor, he grew droll.†   (source)
  • Droll was the word he used, I think.†   (source)
  • He had a talent for making the sharpest sarcasm sound mildly droll.†   (source)
  • But his gift was not mimicry alone; what emanated from him so drolly was the product of dazzling invention.†   (source)
  • She looked at him with the droll, mischievous expression of a child.†   (source)
  • His jokes of grumkins and snarks no longer seemed quite so droll.†   (source)
  • Tyrion had heard a few of those droll names.†   (source)
  • Then, I heard my mother recite, at a distance, in her most droll, flat tone, "Yes.†   (source)
  • A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him.†   (source)
  • It made for a droll picture, but Cersei did not believe it for an instant.†   (source)
  • All this of snakes and incest is droll, but it changes nothing.†   (source)
  • This time Duck laughed, and Haldon said, "What a droll little fellow you are, Yollo.†   (source)
  • You mustn't hurt sweet Shagwell, I'm too droll to die."†   (source)
  • I could set my niece and nephew at war, wouldn't that be droll?"†   (source)
  • He opened his green eyes wider and gave us his maniac look, and only the smirk on his wide mouth with its droll, slightly protruding upper lip reassured us that he wasn't completely goofy.†   (source)
  • The architect, a student of the legendary Millon DeHaVre, has incorporated several small jokes into the house's design: the steps go down to the tower room, of course, but equally droll is the exit from the eyrie which leads to the exercise room on the lowest level of Lusus's deepest Hive, or perhaps the guest bathroom which consists of toilet, bidet, sink and shower stall on an open, wall-less raft afloat on the violet seaworld of Mare Infinitus.†   (source)
  • …of the Headmaster, giving me, as I put on the skis and slid down the small slope and off the miniature ski jump a sensation of soaring flight, of hurtling high and far through space; inspiring Phineas, during one of Chet's Spanish inventions, to climb onto the Prize Table and with only one leg to create a droll dance among the prizes, springing and spinning from one bare space to another, cleanly missing Hazel Brewster's hair, never marring by a misstep the pictures of Betty Grable.†   (source)
  • Later, some of the people who worked in the lab would say they were the kind of couple that is easy to like—intelligent and attractive and funny in a droll, ironic kind of way—and that much is immediately obvious from the videotape Gottman made of their visit.†   (source)
  • Anguy often rode beside her; he was closer to her in age than any of them but Gendry, and he told her droll tales of the Dornish Marches.†   (source)
  • And you tell a droll tale.†   (source)
  • You and Bronn are both so droll.†   (source)
  • Very droll.†   (source)
  • She would wonder whether Erondites the younger had also called her likely marriage to the Thief of Eddis droll.†   (source)
  • "You're such a droll little fellow.†   (source)
  • Droll.†   (source)
  • Though the noble Yezzan is loath to lose his little treasures, as you have seen, Yurkhaz zo Yunzak persuaded him that it would be selfish to keep such droll antics to himself.†   (source)
  • Droll, yes.†   (source)
  • He bought her fine clothes (including the droll and beguiling . matching "costumes" I first saw them dressed in), rings, earrings, bracelets, bangles, beads.†   (source)
  • Asked to take a look at this phenomenon, Floss did so, and in their fleeting encounter something about Bronek—perhaps only the language he spoke, the droll garbled German of an uneducated Pole from Pomerania—caught the Commandant's fancy.†   (source)
  • He shmoozed and whispered around the edge of her lips with his own lips and stuck his tongue in her mouth, insinuating it there with droll titillating little forays and retreats, making movements gently copulatory.†   (source)
  • I drifted off to sleep, but slept uneasily, indeed chaotically, once waking in the unfamiliar darkness to find myself very close to some droll phallic penetration—through folds, or a hem, or a damp wrinkle—of my displaced pillow.†   (source)
  • His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh.†   (source)
  • The letters he wrote to me from the Pacific—after military exigencies had separated us and he was preparing for the assault on Iwo Jima while I was still studying platoon tactics in the swamps of North Carolina—were wondrous long documents, drolly obscene and touched with a raging yet resigned hilarity which I assumed was Jack's exclusive property until I saw it miraculously resurrected years later in Catch-22.†   (source)
  • "I thought so," she drew her head back in droll disappointment.†   (source)
  • He would be a droll kind of original who could say that!†   (source)
  • That is very droll, my friend.†   (source)
  • Laughingly with a few droll caresses he turned me about so that I faced the gigantic mirror on the wall.†   (source)
  • Oh, that is droll!†   (source)
  • Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.†   (source)
  • The phrase "saddled you with" sounded particularly droll coming from him.†   (source)
  • "How extraordinarily droll you are!" he said.†   (source)
  • That droll action established anew Milly's faith in an understanding between her and this man.†   (source)
  • "Freddie, you are so droll," she replied.†   (source)
  • Miss Bartlett, with equal vivacity, replied: "Oh, you droll person!†   (source)
  • How droll the stains one sees on fine-laced doublets, From gall of envy, or the poltroon's drivel!†   (source)
  • Bea was droll in her attempt to be at once a respectful servant and a bosom friend.†   (source)
  • His droll expression seemed to say that he had found the secret of contentment.†   (source)
  • She made a droll face at Emil, who flushed.†   (source)
  • The sound of his voice, the clean-cut and droll geniality; seemed new and delightful to Helen.†   (source)
  • His expression was droll; it dismissed me lightly.†   (source)
  • The effect was something so quaint and droll it caught even the manager.†   (source)
  • No one would listen to him but old Monsieur Farival, who went into convulsions over the droll story.†   (source)
  • They talked more than usual at breakfast, and Lassiter made droll remarks.†   (source)
  • One might have thought they had such a droll find (drole de trouvaille) brought them every day.†   (source)
  • And she gave, in her simple sharpness, an almost droll disillusioned nod.†   (source)
  • Everyone within earshot began to laugh, because Herr Settembrini had a droll way of telling stories.†   (source)
  • Anything concerning the Sago Lily the droll Mormon took to heart.†   (source)
  • "You have such a droll way of speaking, Herr Settembrini," Hans Castorp said.†   (source)
  • And it certainly turned out droll enough—ghastly in fact.†   (source)
  • "But what is it all about?" she said, with such genuine and droll wonder.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Linton eyed him with a droll expression — half angry, half laughing at his fastidiousness.†   (source)
  • "A nonentity, sir?" said Richard with a droll look.†   (source)
  • As to Porthos, that is certainly droll; but I am not the less a giddy fool.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be something droll, for occasionally there was a laugh and a cry of "Silence!"†   (source)
  • "But go and see that droll dog," the little man persisted, calling after him.†   (source)
  • I remember they made me laugh uncommonly—there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches.†   (source)
  • But this is droll," cried d'Artagnan, consoled, and holding his sides with laughter.†   (source)
  • And that's rather droll, as they didn't get on together."†   (source)
  • And here he burst into a laugh so droll and violent that it made the archdeacon smile.†   (source)
  • "Come in, my lord," said Philip in a low tone, "and I will show you something droll."†   (source)
  • I really couldn't help it, and it all came about in such a droll way that I must tell you.†   (source)
  • As to Porthos—oh, as to Porthos, faith, that's a droll affair!"†   (source)
  • By the way, you had a droll and peculiar little pout; do you still make it?†   (source)
  • She showed it step by step and room by room and secret by secret, with droll, delightful, childish talk about it and with the result, in half an hour, of our becoming immense friends.†   (source)
  • At the long-drawn "Alllll aboarrrrrd"—like a mountain call at dusk—they hastened back into the smoking-compartment, and till two of the morning continued the droll tales, their eyes damp with cigar-smoke and laughter.†   (source)
  • Oftener than once her coming had interrupted the droll story with which Robert was entertaining some amused group of married women.†   (source)
  • Droll, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Morel usually quarrelled with her lace woman, sympathised with her fruit man—who was a gabey, but his wife was a bad 'un—laughed with the fish man—who was a scamp but so droll—put the linoleum man in his place, was cold with the odd-wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven—or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly polite.†   (source)
  • Muishkin turned, and to his great surprise observed a red, flushed face and a droll-looking figure which he recognized at once as that of Ferdishenko.†   (source)
  • Joe Lake was droll; he said the most serious things in a way to make Shefford wonder if he was not joking.†   (source)
  • How droll and dry he was!†   (source)
  • Why! what a droll name!†   (source)
  • The grey block of Trinity on his left, set heavily in the city's ignorance like a dull stone set in a cumbrous ring, pulled his mind downward and while he was striving this way and that to free his feet from the fetters of the reformed conscience he came upon the droll statue of the national poet of Ireland.†   (source)
  • Stories began to crop up—those ever-enduring, droll stories which form the major portion of the conversation among American men under such circumstances.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Alan, with one of his droll looks, "I was rather in hopes it would maybe get us that boat."†   (source)
  • Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.†   (source)
  • This young man was again the dark-faced, clear-eyed Roy, droll and dry, with the enigmatic smile on his lips.†   (source)
  • "Yes, it's a droll situation; I really don't know what advice to give you," replied Evgenie, laughing.†   (source)
  • It was droll how Alan dwelt on Mr. Riach's stature, for, to say the truth, the one was not much smaller than the other.†   (source)
  • ALL THE SISTERS: He is so droll!†   (source)
  • The very sight of Torrance brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago, when I had made a tryst with the poor oaf at the cross of Edinburgh.†   (source)
  • 'This was their usual greeting to each other, and the bit of swagger she would put into her rather high but sweet voice was very droll, pretty, and childlike.†   (source)
  • I had procured it while still a boy, at that droll age when the stories of duels and highwaymen begin to delight one, and when one imagines oneself nobly standing fire at some future day, in a duel.†   (source)
  • It is droll how one forgets.†   (source)
  • "Yes-yes-yes-yes!" he might say, waving an admonishing finger at them, while turning his head away with a droll smile playing on his ragged lips.†   (source)
  • The little machine shook and rocked tumultuously, and the crimson nape of that lowered neck, the size of those straining thighs, the immense heaving of that dingy, striped green-and-orange back, the whole burrowing effort of that gaudy and sordid mass, troubled one's sense of probability with a droll and fearsome effect, like one of those grotesque and distinct visions that scare and fascinate one in a fever.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp laughed genially at the "wisp of straw," and at the bit about "beautiful characters," too, or rather, at the droll, despondent way Settembrini related it.†   (source)
  • It was a crazy, droll situation.†   (source)
  • It came to a perfectly rollicking close, a droll galop that after a brief hesitation became a shameless cancan, evoking visions of top hats flung into the air, of flying skirts and bouncing knees, and its comic, triumphant ending seemed to have no end.†   (source)
  • Droll, eh?†   (source)
  • In addition to Madame Chauchat, this consisted of a blond-bearded, lackadaisical gentleman with a concave chest and pop-eyes; a very dark-skinned girl with an original, droll face, golden earrings, and a mop of frizzy hair; Dr. Blumenkohl, who had likewise joined them; and two hunch-shouldered youths.†   (source)
  • He would spot him standing among the other guests in the game room of an evening, gazing gloomily and forlornly at the charming, though flawed woman who was sitting on the sofa in the small salon and chatting with frizzy-haired Tamara (that was the droll-looking girl's name), Dr. Blumenkohl, the man with the concave chest, and the hunch-shouldered youths from her table.†   (source)
  • Boughs of trees adorned with thick pillows, so fluffy someone must have plumped them up; the ground a series of humps and mounds, beneath which slinking underbrush or outcrops of rock lay hidden; a landscape of crouching, cowering gnomes in droll disguises—it was comic to behold, straight out of a book of fairy tales.†   (source)
  • With a cunning that was actually foreign to him, he pretended that Fraulein Engelhart's enthusiasm for Frau Chauchat was not in reality what he very well knew it to be, but that her enthusiasm was some neutral, droll fact that he, Hans Castorp, as an uninvolved party standing off at a cool, amused distance, could use to tease the old maid.†   (source)
  • During the one brief hour after supper—and sometimes that shrank to a mere twenty minutes—when there was some regular social interchange, without exception Madame Chauchat would take her seat at the back of the little salon, an area reserved apparently for the Good Russian table, where she was joined by the gentleman with the concave chest, the droll frizzy-haired girl, silent Dr. Blumenkohl, and the two hunch-shouldered youths.†   (source)
  • Body number four, under dreary pretences of being droll (when it was very melancholy indeed), made the shallowest pretences of concealing pitfalls of knowledge, into which it was the duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled.†   (source)
  • "It is very droll," said Zephine.†   (source)
  • He was a regular devil, and a very disorderly one, who made Dom Claude scowl; but very droll and very subtle, which made the big brother smile.†   (source)
  • A wicked rascal, Ned, but droll!†   (source)
  • At other times the old man would tell them stories of robberies he had committed in his younger days: mixed up with so much that was droll and curious, that Oliver could not help laughing heartily, and showing that he was amused in spite of all his better feelings.†   (source)
  • You can have your droll name again, playfully pointing you out and setting you apart, as it is right that you should be pointed out and set apart.†   (source)
  • He is so droll, that Samson.†   (source)
  • It re'lly was droll to think on 't.†   (source)
  • Knips took it readily, and after turning it about, and sniffing and smelling it, he popped it into his mouth, with such a droll grimace of delight and satisfaction that the boys all laughed and clapped their hands, crying 'Bravo, Knips!†   (source)
  • It is a droll little church.†   (source)
  • A droll idea that!†   (source)
  • I laughed in spite of myself all the time, the whole thing was so droll; and yet I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution,—not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.†   (source)
  • For the old lady was in the middle of her story, and long before it was done, Jo was off again, making more droll revelations and committing still more fearful blunders.†   (source)
  • Then he recounted an episode in which the husband played the part of the lover, and he—the lover—assumed the role of the husband, as well as several droll incidents from his recollections of Germany, where "shelter" is called Unterkunft and where the husbands eat sauerkraut and the young girls are "too blonde."†   (source)
  • Your English names are so droll!†   (source)
  • For, it may alone be worth half the sum to madame, to be freed from the suspicions that my droll idea awakens.†   (source)
  • "Take me to your dear mamma, you droll child," Mrs. Frederick said, and those ladies accordingly met, after an absence of more than fifteen years.†   (source)
  • "Well, it is too bad,—I won't again; but I do like to hear the droll little image stumble over those big words!"†   (source)
  • You are droll.†   (source)
  • This singularity seemed to us so droll that we both laughed heartily, feeling at the same time much puzzled to know what sort of animal it could possibly be.†   (source)
  • "Droll?" said Mr. Newman, laughing too.†   (source)
  • And he began telling with droll good-humor how, after not sleeping all night, he had, wearing an old fur-lined, full-skirted coat, got into Alexey Alexandrovitch's compartment.†   (source)
  • The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer, who hurriedly replied in the affirmative: seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans, and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans, if anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber.†   (source)
  • Come, come, this is very droll—very amusing—I allow; but, as I am very hungry, pray allow me to eat.†   (source)
  • In the height of the uproar and laughter, Sam, however, preserved an immovable gravity, only from time to time rolling his eyes up, and giving his auditors divers inexpressibly droll glances, without departing from the sententious elevation of his oratory.†   (source)
  • Your dear friend followed me to my retreat, and was very droll on the severance of the connection; though he was sorry, too, for the excellent people (in their way the best he had ever met), and deplored the necessity of breaking mere house-flies on the wheel.†   (source)
  • It had been blowing fresh, and it always suited Becky's humour to see the droll woe-begone faces of the people as they emerged from the boat.†   (source)
  • "Ha, ha!" said Raffles, with an affected explosion, "that reminds me of a droll dog of a thief who declined to know the constable."†   (source)
  • The daughters, who appeared to be very fond of him, were amused by this droll fact, particularly the Comedy daughter.†   (source)
  • In a minute a hand came down over the page, so that she could not draw, and Laurie's voice said, with a droll imitation of a penitent child, "I will be good, oh, I will be good!"†   (source)
  • But Mr. Newman, unlike his companion, read the name with perfect gravity; all French names to him were equally droll.†   (source)
  • Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin.†   (source)
  • His steam-like breathings, usually droll in their effect, were more tragic than so many groans: while from head to foot, he was in that begrimed, besmeared, neglected state, that he might have been an authentic portrait of Misfortune which could scarcely be discerned through its want of cleaning.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the gloom of the spiral staircase, he elbowed something which drew aside with a growl; he took it for granted that it was Quasimodo, and it struck him as so droll that he descended the remainder of the staircase holding his sides with laughter.†   (source)
  • She laughed, and the Major did too, at his droll figure on donkey-back, with his long legs touching the ground.†   (source)
  • Jo said this with such a droll imitation of May Chester's gushing style that Amy got out of the room as rapidly as possible, feeling a strong desire to laugh and cry at the same time.†   (source)
  • That is droll!†   (source)
  • "PARIDIEU!" said d'Artagnan to himself, to whose mind the niece of the theologian reverted, "PARDIEU, it would be droll if this belated dove should be in search of our friend's house.†   (source)
  • Her visitors, coming in often while Newman sat there, found a tall, lean, silent man in a half-lounging attitude, who laughed out sometimes when no one had meant to be droll, and remained grave in the presence of calculated witticisms, for appreciation of which he had apparently not the proper culture.†   (source)
  • Fortunately the story was The Constant Tin Soldier, which is droll, you know, so I could laugh, and I did, though I didn't understand half he read, for I couldn't help it, he was so earnest, I so excited, and the whole thing so comical.†   (source)
  • Now, that seems droll!†   (source)
  • She rallied him about it; she had perceived his folly; she warned him; she finished by owning that little Sharp was the most clever, droll, odd, good-natured, simple, kindly creature in England.†   (source)
  • He had somehow picked up a troop of droll children, little hatless boys with their galligaskins much worn and scant shirting to hang out, little girls who tossed their hair out of their eyes to look at him, and guardian brothers at the mature age of seven.†   (source)
  • How very droll you will look!†   (source)
  • Rebecca is a droll funny creature, to be sure; and those descriptions of the poor lady weeping for the loss of her beauty, and the gentleman "with hay-coloured whiskers and straw-coloured hair," are very smart, doubtless, and show a great knowledge of the world.†   (source)
  • If Beth had wanted any reward, she found it in the bright little faces always turned up to her window, with nods and smiles, and the droll little letters which came to her, full of blots and gratitude.†   (source)
  • That is droll.†   (source)
  • Oh, how droll!†   (source)
  • He pronounced avenue—EVENUE, and nothing—NOTHINK, so droll; and he had a Mr. Hodson, his hind from Mudbury, into the carriage with him, and they talked about distraining, and selling up, and draining and subsoiling, and a great deal about tenants and farming—much more than I could understand.†   (source)
  • No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilarious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed.†   (source)
  • O you droll creature!†   (source)
  • Very precious to Jo was the friendship of the lads, their penitent sniffs and whispers after wrongdoing, their droll or touching little confidences, their pleasant enthusiasms, hopes, and plans, even their misfortunes, for they only endeared them to her all the more.†   (source)
  • His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect.†   (source)
  • It was so droll!†   (source)
  • I forget what it was now, but it was something so droll!†   (source)
  • Palmer is so droll!" said she, in a whisper, to Elinor.†   (source)
  • There now; you see how droll he is.†   (source)
  • There was not a single point in which we differed; I would not have had you by for the world; you are such a sly thing, I am sure you would have made some droll remark or other about it.†   (source)
  • "It would be something remarkable, now," he continued, "something droll, if Fanny should have a brother and I a sister settling at the same time.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he won't speak to me for half a day together, and then he comes out with something so droll—all about any thing in the world."†   (source)
  • After they had been assembled about an hour, Mr. Palmer sauntered towards the Miss Dashwoods to express his surprise on seeing them in town, though Colonel Brandon had been first informed of their arrival at his house, and he had himself said something very droll on hearing that they were to come.†   (source)
  • He is so droll!†   (source)
  • One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.†   (source)
  • "What--did--I--tell--you--when--you--don't--know--a--word," sing-songed Miss Garnder drolly.†   (source)
  • Awhrri'," she repeated after him, and so drolly he laughed.†   (source)
  • Of all the things that pleased and charmed me about her, the prettiest and most characteristic was her rapid changes from the deepest seriousness to the drollest merriment, and this without doing herself the least violence, with the facility of a gifted child.†   (source)
  • He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom.†   (source)
  • "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious!†   (source)
  • Herr Settembrini spoke very graphically, very drolly, about the father in the corner.†   (source)
  • WAGNER 'tis the absurdest, drollest beast.†   (source)
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